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Many times when working on a computer that has been infected with
a virus, Trojan, or piece of spyware I find myself with the Task
Manager being disabled. Malware creators like to disable Task
Manager so it makes solving the problem and removing the issue
difficult.
If this happens you'll normally have to edit the Windows registry to fix
the problem. A restriction has been placed on the user to not allow
them to run Task Manager, this might be ok in an office environment
where the IT department wants to control things, but in a home office
this can cause major problems trying to fix a malware or virus issue.
Listed below you will find the many ways to reenable Task Manager
along with an automatic method that works wonders.
To open the Task Manager, you normally would do one of the
following:
• Press CTRLALTDEL on the keyboard
• Press CTRLSHIFTESC on the keyboard
• Rightclick on a blank area on the start bar and choose Task
Manager
• Click on Start, Run and type TASKMGR in the run box and
press Enter
Sometimes instead of Task Manager opening you'll see the following
screen. In these cases, you'll have to follow the methods below to re
enable access to the Task Manager.
First we'll begin with the various registry modification methods for
correcting this problem.
Method 1 Using the Group Policy Editor in Windows XP
Professional
1. Click Start, Run, type gpedit.msc and click OK.
2. Under User Configuration, Click on the plus (+) next to
Administrative Templates
3. Click on the plus (+) next system, then click on Ctrl+Alt+Delete
Options
4. Find Remove Task Manager in the righthand pane and double
click on it
5. Choose the option "Not Configured" and click Ok.
6. Close the Group Policy Window
Method 2: Change the Task Manager Option through the
Run line
1. Click on Start, Run and type the following command exactly and
press Enter
REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current
Version\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t
REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
Method 3: Change Task Manager through a Registry REG file
1. Click on Start, Run, and type Notepad and press Enter
2. Copy and paste the information between the dotted lines into
Notepad and save it to your desktop as taskmanager.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersi
on\Policies\System]
"DisableTaskMgr"=dword:00000000
3. Double click on the taskmanager.reg file to enter the
information into the Windows registry
Method 4: Delete the restriction in the registry manually
1. Click on Start, Run, and type REGEDIT and press Enter
2. Navigate to the following branch
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \
Current Version \ Policies\ System
3. In the right pane, find and delete the value named
DisableTaskMgr
4. Close the registry editor